What to Do After a Layoff

In the fall of 2001 I was promoted into my first Account Management position and handed the keys to our second largest account, MCI WorldCom. Call it bad luck or call it karmic payback for a bad past life, but we all know what happened next: 9/11, the implosion of the dot com bubble and the breakdown of the overall economy. Weeks later our company was acquired and, as the newest on staff with an account on the verge of biblical-like collapse, I quickly found myself being beaten by the proverbial short end of the employment stick.